There it is again, that flashy red button that reads: "Critical Updates Available" when I login as host. It's the word "Critical": it suggests that we are vulnerable to attacks from evil ... euh... attackers. I want to protect my production site against that, don't I?

I once made that mistake. I then learned that some professionals happily run their sites on 04.09.05 in spite of all the critical updates since. Of course, I had to venture into DNN 5, to keep up-to-date with the ML features. But if it were me, I'd have stuck with DNN 05.04.04 for production. "I would have...": then came the scare about the vulnerability in the core of ASP and were suggested that an update to 05.05.00 would provide temporary protection. We all know now it didn't but there's no rolling back without losing information.

So I moved up. Because of Issues, I moved the production site up to 05.05.01 and then to 05.06.00 - and now, if tests run well to 05.06.01. For what I foresee, in another month or so, I might be moving it up to 05.06.02 if that solves the bug in the static text translation page. I envy those sites that live in rest and peace with 04.09.05.

I think I misunderstand the word "Critical", but then, so will many users do. "Critical" makes alarm bells go off.

Good thing: I don't login with the host account that often, and now I will do so even less.

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I have a client that is still quite happy running an old version of dnn before the dawn of time.  His site does what he wants and he sees no reason to move any further forward.

However, having said if one day he does decide to move forward he has now left it so long that I would dread to think of the nightmares moving the site forward would cause.

I guess it becomes each to their own.

Westa

Some semantics from time to time doesn't hurt. Would "Stabilization Upgrade" not be more appropriate for this kind of delivery?

Correct me if I'm wrong: Is the qualification "Critical" not connected to security vulnerability loopholes being closed? In daily use, the word has a whole array of meanings,  The meaning that I constructed around the word in IT language is mostly derived from Microsoft's use in its critical updates.

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